would eventually stop. if we can tell time more precisely you may still be late for work but now you'll know exactly how late you are. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >> how about that? >> that's pretty amazing. barbara starr, thanks for that. >> again, don't forget to set your clocks forward tomorrow. watch us on "new day" tomorrow morning. a little sleep deprived. that will do it for us today. thank you for being here. >> and stay right there because there's a whole lot more ahead in the next hour of "cnn newsroom" turning it over now to our colleague fredericka whitfield. >> good to see you guys. i know you guys won't forget. just in case, i know you got my back, right? >> you're lucky. >> all right. good deal. thinks so much, joe and pamela. hello, everyone. it's 11:00 eastern hour of the "newsroom" which starts right now.

an urgent search and rescue mission is under way right now after a large passenger jet disappears on its way to beijing. no one knows exactly what happened or where the plane is. now there are new questions about the identity of two of the passengers. the breaking story is ahead. in the ukraine, tensions ratchet up. russia accuse of carrying out more aggressive bullying tactic against the ukrainian military and poland takes action to protect its consulate in crimea. in the u.s., a mother seen driving her children into the atlantic ocean faces attempted murder charges. hear what she allegedly told her children during those terrifying moments. and the disturbing revelations about her mental state. we start this morning with that frantic search for a missing malaysian airlines plane. the boeing 777 vanished not long after taking off from kuala

lumpur, malaysia yesterday. it was headed to beijing with 239 people on board. most chinese nationals. three americans are among the passengers. state media in vietnam and china say the jet has crashed but malaysian authorities are not confirming that yet. rescue crews from across the region are now searching an area of the south china sea where the plane may have gone down. search helicopters and airplanes are also being deployed. an official tells cnn a vietnamese air kraf has spotted possible debris and an oil slick in waters off vietnam and malaysia. we have correspondents covering this story from all angles. richard quest is in new york and david mckenzie in beijing. richard, there's been a lot of confusion about the nationalities of two of the passengers, malaysian airlines says there is one austrian passenger and one italian passenger on the plane that is now missing but officials in italy and austria say that's not

the case. why so much confusion? what do you know? >> it's not unusual for there to be some discrepancies on a manifest when you have large numbers of passengers involved. what's unusual here is in the case of the us a industry yan and italian, the people on the plane seem to be traveling on passports reported lost or stolen, which seems somewhat extraordinary in this day and age, two passengers on the same flight could be traveling on forged or stolen or lost documents. and then you've got the issue of these passengers were flying to beijing. now you would have assumed that if passports reported lost and stolen, we don't know that they had been, but if they were, then, of course, the system of monitoring and the immigration and cooperation that takes place would have -- you would have thought, prevented this from taking place. so that's that side of it. and there are discrepancies. there are questions about the manifests. and there are issues about these two passengers who did travel on

passports that had been lost or stolen. >> meantime, i understand you actually met some of the members of this missing crew fairly recently while doing a story with cnn international. tell me about the crew, tell me about what you learned during that story. >> we were filming for "business traveler" flying from hong kong to kuala lumpur and the crew onboard appeared to be the same ones as on this flight, certainly the first officer. malaysia airlines confirmed it was the same first officer, meade. he was a young 27. experienced first officer. more than 2,700 hours flying. he was transitioning to the -- to these 777 fleet. the captain when we landed and it was meade who did the landing at kuala lumpur, when we landed the captain pointed out it was a flawless landing and also said that at malaysia airlines they went out of their way to ensure

training up to captain standards. what he meant is that before meade got into the right-hand seat of a 777, he had certainly spent many weeks and months in the simulator as he transitioned from a smaller jet to a large wide bodied. >> so richard, let's talk about the fact that the plane is now missing with this crew onboard. if it's believed the plane went off radar somewhere between an hour and two hours after takeoff, how will that help investigators, whether it be the arsenal in the air or in the sea, try to locate where this plane possibly may be, if indeed it went down an hour or two after takeoff? >> right, because it narrows the field of search. you look at where the plane last reported that it was. every ten minutes or so the aircraft is supposed to tell the -- pilots tell air traffic control, in this case they were under the control of the

hochiman vietnamese aircraft. imagine you've just called someone on your cellphone and said i'm at "x" heading in this direction at this speed. and then you're not heard from again within the next check call. so you start to work backwards. that's how you do it. you know they were there, therefore, they were traveling in this direction at this speed and we didn't hear from them again, therefore, the search area -- now, sounds relatively straightforward when i talk about it to you on the television. we are talking about a very large space of land and water in this case, and that's why you now have navies and air forces from several countries that will be cooperating to find the wreckage of suches. and one other thing. they will be helped possibly by the underwater locator beacon. this is attached to the flight data recorder. it will be emiting a signal.

now, we've got several days of this signal so it's not going to switch off overnight, after seven days of it. and that will be a good indicatien indication. it wouldn't be easy. i'm not for a moment sitting here saying it is. they will find the plane. i promise you this. everything we've known so far they will also find what happened because planes do not fall out of the sky at 36,000 feet without somebody wanting to get to the to the bomb of why. >> all right. richard quest. thank you. if of course in the south china sea we understand that it is shallow so that ping could make a difference. we're going to have a report coming from beijing, china, again, because 159 of the 259 people on board are chinese national. we'll bring you up to date on that end. moving on to the crisis in ukraine. a growing standoff between pro-russian forces and

ukrainians shows no signs of letting up in crimea. tensions flared as armed men stormed the offices today, a day after intense situation in nearby sevastopol. they tried to take over the base but ukrainians refused to surrender. also today, military observers from the observation of security and cooperation in europe were not allowed into crimea again. that's three days in a row they've been kept out. russia denies any role in the standoff. the foreign minister says today the russian military is not involved. he also said russia is ready to talk. that might not get very far since russia sharply criticized ukraine's interim government. all that seems to indicate that things are ramping up instead of calming down. we have a correspondent live now and have been seeing the tension firsthand. anna, what are things like right

now? >> well, fredricka, you're right. things are ramping up. the military of build-up of russian forces are entering a new phrase. ukrainian defense ministry is reporting convoy of trucks carrying russian soldiers across the border heading towards crimea. so that, of course, is a grave concern to them. there was obviously that incident here at a military office close by where pro-russian forces have taken over this particular facility with weapons, pushed people on to the floor, occupied several -- all the levels of this particular building. and then there was the incident last night, fredricka, where an hour and a half away from here, the russian troop, unidentified russian troops ran a truck into a gate.

gotten trans on to this air force base. and met some resistance, however, from ukraine i don't know troops. apparently they formed a human shield. they retreated but the local militia turned up and it turned ugly. they clashed with journalists on the scene around some had to be hospitalized. things are becoming more aggressive. there seems to be a great deal more animosity here on the crimean peninsula. >> what about now the protections that poland is now taking with concerns of its consulate? >> yeah, no, there are reports certainly from the polish foreign minister they had to evacuate their consulate here in crimea due to safety concerns. i think, you know, anyone associated with the west who is against the referendum to full crimea to become part of russia

is really feeling the crack down, certainly the media is also getting a taste of what it's like to be among that group. you know, there have been attack on joounlist, individual journalists. we spoke to a greek journalist this morning who said he had a c confrontation with pro-russian forces. he took his equipment. when he got away from, i guess, away from the publish, drove away from other people, that's when they -- when they attacked him. he's in a bit of a bad way. the bulgarian journalist, we had that footage from him yesterday being attacked on cctv. and these paramilitaries, they don't want another viewpoint coming out of creimea. >> keep us posted. with the escalating crisis happening in ukraine a lot of people are asking the question, are we headed toward another

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closely scrutinized or where do they go with this investigation? >> i talked with her attorney, public defender a while ago. that's a line he wants to go down, saying that she is mentally unstable. fred, her bond was $1.2 million. $300,000 per first degree attempted murder charge and another $100,000 per child abuse charge. she could face a maximum of 30 years in jail. >> she definitely tried to kill her children, from everything that we have seen. >> the volusia county sheriff's office says new details in their investigation shows this is no accident. >> she actually told them to close their eyes and go to sleep, she was taking them to a better place. >> on tuesday she drove a minivan filled with her children into a atlantic ocean. the dramatic drive on florida's daytona beach, caught on tape as kids inside cried for help. >> we thought it was just a joke, you know. hey, they're having a good time. >> eyewitness tim found out quickly the situation was

serious. it was tessen ereer and another looker help rescue the family. >> we didn't know there were kids in the car to begin with. the back windows were rolled down. we heard some kids hollering a little bit. then i thought i heard a faint help. i was like, did i hear a faint help? and then it come clear they were scream for help. >> the children's mother was charged with three counts of attempted first degree murder and three counts of child abuse. relatives told investigators wilkerson was in, quote, a an abusive relationship with her husband and she had come to florida to get away. relatives said the 32-year-old pregnant mother of three had no history of mental illness but a 911 call was made by a concerned family member just two hours before wilkersonal le allegely to kill her kids. >> hi, i'm a wellness check. she's having psychosis or something or postpartum. >> police say they did respond and evaluated her for about 30 minutes. but said there was no legal

right to detain her. >> the children weren't in crisis. the woman said i'm going to a shelter. and she showed nothing, there was no display that she was a danger to herself or anyone at that time. >> as you heard from the sheriff there, fred, they are convinced she did this on purpose. this was no accident. >> these children, as they were yelling, i guess, you know, i guess reportedly she told them to roll up the windows. >> that's right. >> and one of the children -- >> close your eyes. >> -- was able to roll down the window and reach out and call for help. amazingly there were a lot of people out there who would come to their aid. >> there was two onlookers who helped these kids get out of the minivan. it was that quick thinking of that child that lowered the window, however slight, that allowed one of the rescuers to reach in there and unlock the doors and pull them all out. witnesses told police, fred, that she was trying to stop those that were trying to help her kids. >> really? >> so, you know, there's a lot stacking up against her. i told you i talked to james, the public defender there in

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it's a tense snigs ukraine and it's only getting worse. today ukrainian officials say 100 armed men took over a military office in crimea in the city of simferopol. they said they were part of the

self-defense forces. nearby the women protested russian military presence in crimea in honor of women's day. people in europe trying to get into crimea were kept out. third day in a row they were denied such access. leaders in ukraine estimate some 30,000 russian troops now occupy the crimean peninsula. u.s. destroyer is headed toward the black sea for naval maneuvers with romania and bulgaria. it's going there as part of an exercise that was planned before this crisis erupted. let me bring in now cedric, a retired air force colonel and member of joint chiefs of staff and deputy director at training at the nsa. we got troops in crimea, threats of sanctions by the u.s. and retaliation by the russians. it sure seems like cold war times, doesn't it, colonel? >> it sure does, fredricka. good morning. it's one of those situations

where there are a lot of historic parallels who what's going on right now. and when you have experienced the cold war like i did in the late 1980s when it was winding down and also, of course, before then, there are significant areas where the russians are acting a lot like the soviet union did back in that day. now, there are also significant differences. but the danger is there. there's a danger of miscalculation. there's a danger that russian action s whether they're paris pated by real russian troop or militias or both of them could make a significant difference in the calculations to the west has to make as well as the calculations that have to be made by the ukrainian government itself. there are significant issues that need to be weighed as we go forward with diplomatic efforts and military responses to what's going on there now. >> what are your greatest concerns about russia's reach? do you believe the threat is real? that it may be beyond crimea?

>> i do. i believe this is part of a master plan that putin has. putin decided he wants to, in essence, recreate as much of the old soviet union as he can in terms of the territory that the soviet union either had out right or held influence over. that means that all of the old members of the soviet union, such as ukraine, belarus, the baltic republics, the georgian states and central asian republics are fair game as far as russian policymakers are concerned for the very least greater russian influence but also possibly actual russian takeovers of certain parts of their area. so with that said, there are a lot of efforts by the russians to create buffer zones and ukraine is a prime example of that with the crimea being number one, the number one location right now, but also the eastern ukraine where there's a significant population of russian-speaking and ethnic russian people. >> you said you do believe there was a master plan but in today's

"new york times" it indicates that there was a crisis meeting that came very shortly after putin left the winter olympic games gathering 12 of his members of the national security team counsel and that there were some members who said that they didn't believe that putin would do anything in terms of infiltrating crimea. so if there was a master plan, is he the only one who knew about it? i mean, how would his national security team not know about it? >> well, you could have a plan on the shelf, but not think that it will be executed. so what putin has done in the first part was he executed a war plan that was -- or the equivalent of a war plan that was basically in their files on their shelves in the kremlin, or in the russian ministry of defense. now, having said that, i do think that putin was surprised by the fact that yanukovich, the

now deposed ukrainian president was overthrown by the people. so he's taking advantage. he's got a plan in place but he's taking advantage of the tactical situation that he sees in front of him. so he convened this crisis meeting of his national security staff and said, okay, it's time to go forward. this plan is what we're going to use and we're going to make this plan the basis for our action in the ukraine. now, every time a plan is implemented, it makes contact with the enemy as we say in the military and every time he makes contact with the military it's going to change in terms of how it's executed. but there is a plan out there and he is basically following that as much as he can. but he was surprised, i am certain, by the fact that yanukovich was overthrown when he was. >> lots to watch. colonel cedric layton, thank you for your time. >> thanks for having me. all right, new questions about two passengers onboard that missing malaysian airliner. could they have been traveling on lost or stolen passports?

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airport and headed for beijing. well, now families of the 239 people onboard are wait for news and they're expecting the worse. a vietnamese aircraft flying over the scene spotted rubbish and a liquid floating on the water but it's too early to tell if that is indeed connected to this crash. the airline says the passengers were from 14 countries including at least three from the united states. but it's important to point out that officials from italy and austria deny they had passengers on the plane. austria says a passport was stolen and there are reports an italian person's passport was also stolen which raises the question, were two of the passengers with possibly stolen passports on that plane? and, if so, who were they? joining me right now cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes

and, tom, let me get to you first. we're asking about these passports because apparently on the manifest were names matched to these passports which both countries, austria and italy, are now saying were stolen. so help us understand, you know, how to piece this together. on the level of importance, where is it? >> well, fredricka, it's important to be followed up on. if the individuals that previously owned those passports weren't passengers, who was? so that's going to be an important part of the investigation. i should add that i was on the executive committee of interpol for three years, worked closely with interpol for decades, and interpol maintains a database in france of lost and stolen passports. most of the 190 countries that belong to interpol which would include malaysia and china and in this case thailand, if that's where the passports were stolen, they enter that information into

the database which contains over 30 million records in leon. in the united states, if you go through passport control in the u.s. an automatic inquiry when the passport is scanned is made of that database in leon to determine whether the passport itself was stolen or lost or whether the individual is wanted. now, the question here becomes, did the authorities in malaysia, the airport in kuala lumpur, did they maken inquiry of that databa database, is that system set up to make an automatic inquiry if someone is using a previously reported stolen document. that should come up right away if they check that database. not every country that belongs to interpol automatically does that and i know the secretary general ron noble has been pushing this very aggressively with the rest of the member countries, to get onboard and query that database any time someone enters or exits your country through the international passport system. >> right. is that equipment up to date or

outdated. greg, formerly of the ntsb. let me ask you about the search of this missing plane. all we know is reportedly it woen went missing an hour orr two hours after takeoff. what's the method of trying to locate this plane? >> emanuel rigright now the inv are going to use whatever assets they have available to them. of course, air traffic control and malaysia air, they will provide information. but i would expect them to also be using military assets, presumably radar or surveillance type information to help them pinpoint the location of where the wreckage may be, especially if it's in the water. >> most typically problems with an aircraft take place on landing or takeoff. very unusual for it to happen while in flight, although we all remember what took place a few years ago with air france and how it went down after leaving rio. in the end, it was some sort of

failure with the aircraft. so if you were to try to, you know, ascertain what may have happened here, greg, even though we don't know where the plane is, if it were to have gone down in that south china sea, is it your best guess it would likely be because of mechanical failure? we understand the crew was very experienced. >> there are -- there are multiple different scenarios. one, of course, it will be up to the investigators to try and determine if, in fact, there was something with the aircraft. the airplane operates in a very high corrosive environment, saltwater environment. of course, there's always the potential for some sort of structural compromise to the wings, the fuselage, and things like that. of course, you also have to look at in that part of the world and around the world, there's still a potential for a terrorist act or an intentional act that could

have rendered the airplane incapacitated. whatever happened happened very, very quickly. for them to have lost two-way radio communication with atc, two-whey radio communication with the company and to lose any kind of radar data with ground control facilities means that that airplane was comp pro miszed in a very quick manner. and it may have been well beyond the control of the crew to keep the airplane under control and make any kind of emergency distress call or emergency landing. >> all right. greg fife, tom fuentes, thank you gentlemen, appreciate it. >> you're welcome. it's that time of year again. it's time to spring forward. get those clocks ready. daylight saving time kicks in at 2:00 a.m. so don't forget to set your clocks ahead one hour before you go to bed. that's the best way to do it. we lose an hour of sleep. but just think about all that extra daylight time we're now going to get.

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at the opening ceremonies. with more on that, so they're there but they're also sending a message. >> the opening ceremony pretty much at any olympic games is where the athletes getting a knowledged for all the years of hard work and they get to go out there together as a country and wave and have a good time. well, as a symbolic protest ukrainian team sent just one of their 31 athletes out there to carry the flag into the stadium. the biathlete received a huge cheer from the crowd when he was introduced. now, ukrainian's paralympic president said they're raising their flag but peace but if there's any escalation of conflict for their country the team will pull out of the games and flat out leave. >> punishes the athlete. >> it does. many countries including the united states pulled their official delegations already in response to the events going on right now in ukraine. it's almost bracket time. ready? >> no, i am not!

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u.s. supreme court justices are weighing in on whether police can use deadly force in high speed chases. err mcpike explains. >> this 2004 police cash cam video shows what seems to be a routine traffic stop for a busted headlight, until it starts a high speed chase. leading police from arkansas into tennessee before cornering their white honda, but briefly. as the honda backs up, almost hitting one of the officers, they fire 15 shots into the car as it speeds away. a short time later, the car crashes into a house. rick erat and allen both die.

rickert's family sues the officers for using excessive force and now, the case is reaching the u.s. supreme court. >> the usual rule is you're not allowed to sue the police if they make a mistake, but it's also a rule that if they do something really outrageous, then you can sue and the question in this case is how outrageous was the police behavior? >> the officers claim they have immunity when safeguarded the public in fast-moving, dangerous situations, even if they make mistakes, but lower courts denied them immunity, saying their actions were unreasonable. >> the question is whether or not the public risk outweighs the public benefit. and those things are contact specific. they emerge in moments in time and that's what we pay police officers to do. make those difficult decisions on our behalf as civilians, so we can go about our daily lives. the tape is never conclusive. it's only one small part of an overall set of circumstances that take place in a short period of time. i can tell you from what i've

seen, it looks like it's consistent with policy. >> erin mcpike, cnn, washington. >> supreme court sided with police in a similar case back in 2007. a ruling on this case is expected within three months. as we get out from under the snowstorms, cnn's tom foreman takes us on an american journey and shows how the snow melt is turning into a blessing for some areas. >> through all the bitter cold and blowing snow, through the misery and madness, the long running winter has brought long awaited water. and ahead of the maryland farm bureau says after some dry years, that's a big relief. >> whether it's a dairy farmer on the east coast, whether you live in d.c. or where ever you live, your food comes from -- >> winter water counts. >> absolutely. >> as a rule, every 20 inches of

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u.s. officials are tracking information that two passengers on the missing airliner could have been traveling on lost or stolen passports. it vanished yesterday after leaving for beijing and is believed to have gone down in the south china sea. next hour, did two passengers with possibly stolen passport get on that plane and if so, who were they? and after a week that saw some record highs on wall street, stocks ended on a mixed note. alison kosik explains why. >> the s&p 500 closed at a record high tuesday and hit the mark again on thursday and friday. but overall, stocks were all over the place. mostly because of the unrest in ukraine. the dow dropped 150 points monday, only to pop 200 points tuesday, the biggest gain of the year. in the end, stocks wrapped up

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the atlantic ocean appears in court. we'll tell you what happened and reveal the new disturbing allegations against her. first up, the mysterious disapierce of flight 370 and new questions about the identities of two passengers on board. the boeing 777 vanished not long after taking off from kuala l par ampur. at least three americans are among the passengers. state media say the jet crashed, but malaysian authorities are not confirming that. rescue crews are now searching an area in the south china sea under darkness. search helicopters and airplanes are also being deployed. the biggest clue so far, traces of oil that a vietnamese plane spotted in waters over the search area. officials say the oil slicks are between six and nine miles long.

and now, to the confusion surrounding the identities of two of the passengers. malaysian airline says there is one austrian and one italian passenger on board the missing jet, but austria and italy deny that. renee marsh joins us by phone. what are we learning as to why they are saying that their citizens are on that plane? >> right, at this point, this part of this story here is really raising a lot of questions because we're not just talking about one passenger, but we're talking about two passengers. one from austria, one from italy and both saying their citizens were listed as being on this plane, however, they say they were not on the plane. so, this creates a big question for investigators that they're really going to want to get to the bottom of and i would imagine if they aren't already, they will want to start looking at possibly airport surveillance

video, to see who went through those check points, who are these people who may have gone through with these passports that according to both italy and austria, may not have been valid. as far as the passenger manifest go, fred, they really are only as accurate as the i.d. verification process, so, if when you're going through the security check point and somehow, there was some crack in that process, the airline can only go off of whatever information they're presented. so, what we're talking about here, it really raises a lot of questions and unfortunately, we just don't have the answers at this point. but the questions raised here, you know, were these passports that belonged to these citizens, were they reported stolen. if they were reported stolen, when these individuals, these other individuals arrived at the passport at the airport with these documents, were the

documents scanned and did it come up as invalid or stolen? why didn't anyone note this if indeed these were stolen documents? these are all questions that investigators are really trying to get to the heart of at this point, at least that will be their mission in the days to come. >> renee, thank you so much. give us new details as you get them. meantime, family members are anxiously awaiting word on the fate of their loved ones on that plane. david mckenzie joining us live from beijing where relatives of the 154 chinese people on board are gathering otah hotel complex. what a officials telling them? >> reporter: up until very recently, very little. they've been stuck in this hotel for hours. we were there earlier today. people were frustrated, angry, of course, saddened by the unfolding news that this airline with so many chinese passengers on board, most likely dropped into the ocean or crashed

somewhere in the south china sea. now, of course, that's according to state media, but here in china and in vietnam and from those eyewitness accounts seen from the vietnamese military planes. but at this stage, they don't know definitively what happened. people coming past us really stone faced mostly, not really talking to the press, but certainly some tears in their eyes and one woman shouting out in chinese, my son was only 40 years old, so those agonizing hours that they've been waiting here, since the plane vanished over vietnamese air space much earlier today. >> all right. david, keep us posted there from beijing. thank you so much. moving on now. to the crisis in ukraine. a growing standoff between pro russian forces and ukraine shows no forces of letting up in crimea. an unmarked convoy of about 70

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accused of trying to get her kids after she drove her van into the ocean with them inside. this is ebony wilkerson appearing in court in daytona beach a short time ago. the first time we've seen her since she was charged with three

counts of first degree murder. they say she acted with p premeditated design as her kids were screaming and crying for help. they believe, police do, that she may have a mental illness? >> that's right. >> will that impact the charges? >> when i talked to her public defender, he was very comfortable going down that line. i was actually shocked when he said she has mental instability, but the charges, we just don't know how you know, she's facing 30 years maximum in prison. if she's convicted of these charges. first degree attempted murder charges. her bond was set at $1.2 million by the judge. $300,000 for every count of first degree attempted murder and $100,000 for every count of child abuse. so, she's as you see here, this video doesn't get any easier to watch. dramatic rescue, these onlookers. as we were talking, it's very quick thinking by that child,

who lowered the window allowing one of the onlookers to reach his hand in and pull those kids out. >> so, the kids, ages 3, 9 and 10, correct? >> that's right. it was key testimony from them in their interviews with authorities that led to these charges according to the sheriff in his press conference yesterday. when he was speaking to reporters, he was convinceded there was no doubt in their mind. they were told by the children that their mother told them to close their eyes, go to sleep and their mother was taking them to a better place. >> and one of the kidding calling mom, she's actually crazy, saying that to police. appreciate that. u.s. lawmakers are raising a flag on the u.s. intelligence community. they want to know why they were told nothing would happen before russia actually invaded ukraine.

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it's a tense situation in ukraine and it's only getting worse. an unmarked convoy traveled through the crimea region today. crimean officials say they are not sure where it's going and it's believeded to be carrying russian soldiers. also, ukrainian women protested

russian military presence in honor of international women's day and military observers from europe trying to get into crimea were kept out. the third day in a row they were denied access. in the u.s., tensions rose this week over what the u.s. intelligence community knew about russia's military plans and when. lawmakers called for a review, saying officials seemed to be caught off guard by the invasion, but the head of the defense intelligence agency told npr that wasn't the case. >> i think for easily seven to ten days leading up to the russian troops as we see them now in crimea, we were providing very solid reporting on what i would describe as just strategic warning, where we move from one level of sort of a condition of warning, which i would just describe to the aud yuns as sort of moderate, to where we believe things are imminent.

>> so, how do you respond then to lawmakers and others who said that the intelligence community was caught off guard? >> i think the evidence if you will, is looked at, the results will show there was good, strategic warning provided to our decision makers. >> i'm joined by eli lake, a senior national security correspondent for the daily beast. this week, you spoke to congressman mike rodgers, who is kaug calling for a review of u.s. intelligence. where does this contradiction between lawmakers and the intelligence community when they got information, what's the convergence here of i guess this disconnect? >> well, i should say that the general is really regarded as an innovator in intelligence and is widely respected throughout the community. i think there's no doubt that the u.s. intelligence community saw not only the troop movements, but the ship movements in the black sea and

knew there was something going on. i think they were some intelligence agencies that provided an analysis that putin was not going to follow through, that it was more of a bluff and that he was not, they said 24 hours em bears before and 24 hours later, this would have been about eight or nine days ago last thursday, the thursday before, and that was briefed to law mareks on capitol hill who came away from that briefing thinking that all right, well, you know, this is brings man ship, but it's not going to go beyond that. what he is reviewing is sort of all right, well, how did that analysis get to congress? there were other agencies i think that provided more kind of warning or strategic warning as general flynn said, but that's really i think at the heart of the dispute. it's an analysis of putin himself. >> so, does it appear that there is still a problem with u.s.

intelligence coming from russia or is is it as simply put, this was a spontaneous move on behalf of putin? >> well, it's hard to say. there is a big problem, but over the last since 9/11, the main focus of the u.s. intelligence community has been al-qaeda and other terrorist organizations as well as countries like iran and really more in the middle east. certainly, there are people who watch and analyze russia and the intelligence community, so there's a lot of people and a lot of equipment, but at the same time, it's really not the same priority and you don't necessarily have the best and most ambitious intelligence officers really looking to have a career in either analyzing or spying on russia. as russia emerges as an important rival at this point, i think that it will probably lead to more attention being focused on it. >> so, we heard in that sound bite, in that interview with

npr, the head of the defense intelligence agency, saying there was strategic warning. so, is the problem within the u.s., the follow up to that? could there have been anything that could have been done to prevent, you know, or respond to an impending invasion? >> well, that's very much unclear, you know. we've been reducing the u.s., the u.s. military's been reducing its presence in western europe and germany for some time now. generally as a policy matter, the obama administration has sought to partner with putin and very much relies on his good will and cooperation on everything from disarming syria's chemical weapons stockpile to pressuring iran to finally give up its nuclear program. so it's, there aren't that many options i think, especially when you're talking about part of what putin regards as what he calls us near or broad, the

former republics of the soviet union. i think that's what this is all about. >> eli, thank you so much for your time. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> and new questions about two passengers now aboard that missing airliner. could they have been traveling on lost or stolen passports? all this azrieltives wait and expect the worst. test.

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. the u.s. is now tracking reports of two passengers on the missing airliner could have been traveling on lost or stolen passports. the plane disappeared after leaving the airport yesterday headed for beijing. a plane has found traces of oil in the south china sea, but authorities suspect came from the missing plane. families of the 279 people on board are waiting for news and expecting the worst. most are waiting at the airport in beijing.

the airline says the passengers were from 14 countries, including at least from the united states, but it's important to point out that officials from italy and austria deny that they had passengers on that plane. austria says a passport was stolen and there are reports an italian passport was also stolen, which raises the question, were two passengers with possibly stolen passports on the plane or is there another explanation behind this? and who are those people? joining me now, cnn law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes and jim tillman. tells cnn quote, we're aware of the reporting on the two lost or stolen passports. no nexus to terrorism yet. although that's by no means definitive. we are still tracking, end quote. so, what does all of this say to you? >> well, it says that the

investigation is going to be very intensive to verify the circumstances, not only of the passports and individuals who reported them stolen, but you have all the other passengers on that plane and trying to verify the identities of people listed as passengers as to whether they really were. more than 150 passengers for chinese nationals, so the government of china will be trying to verify their identity and then all of the other nationalities you just listed. so, that's an important area to try to determine were the people on the flight manifest actually on the plane. we have these two that are believed to not have been on the plane because their documents were stolen, so that's an important part of the investigation. i should add you'll have many countries wanting to participate in the investigation. as far as the crash itself, the u.s. national transportation safety board, the chinese crash investigators, malaysian

investigators, boeing aircraft company, rolls-royce in england because they made the engines for the plane, so they'll all participate in trying to determine what caused that aircraft to fall out of the sky. but separately, the fbi has offices in kuala lumpur and they'll be working closely with authorities as well as other intelligence and law enforcement agencies from all of the countries listed as having passengers to determine if there's anything suspicious or concerning, any individual passenger listed, that bears even more intense investigation. >> these are major airports. it would seem they have sophisticated equipment, up to date equipment, that would be able to determine whether a passport is legitimate or not. whether it's active or not. >> that's true. interpol has a database and interpol has been trying to get

every member country, all 190, to check with that db when someone either enters or exits the country using a passport or other travel document. not every country does that. the united states does it, but other countries may not and i don't know offhand if malaysia did or did not check that database. only afterward when they're trying to contact next of kin, determining that a passport. >> justin: used, for an individual not on that aircraft. >> and jim, to you now, vietnamese air force jet has spotted oil slicks on the surface of the south china sea. they are suspecting that it might be from this missing plane. how will this investigation proceed and who would be leading this investigation and search for the plane or even use of listening devices to find the pings from this plane potentially? >> well, you put the head on the

nail there because fact is, there is a ping system that does emit a sound that can be tracked by sensitive equipment. as a matter of fact, depending upon the devices used to track it, it can be a very, very long distance. 75, 80 miles away. so, that ping is extremely important in locating the wreckage. i'm confused a little about the timing. the timeline seems a little bit off to me. >> what do you mean? >> i've heard everything from 15 minutes to after take off to up to two hours after take off. that makes a big difference as to where we should be concentrating our efforts. as well as the kind of reports coming back from the aircraft, we have very sophisticated aif onices on the plane that are able to give you specific information about its altitude, everything else. that data is continuously fed

into the system. we are not going to have to wonder much longer about what happened. i believe that we are going to have enough to locate this wreckage, particularly if it's in shallow waters of the south china sea. >> quite the mystery. thank you, gentlemen. appreciate it. also, overseas, different direction. riveting testimony in the oscar pistorius murder trial. what a security guard said that could hurt this case.

it has been a stunning first week of testimony in the murder trial of olympian, oscar pistorius, known as the blade runner. neighbors say they heard screams before shots. pistorius told him, quote, everything is fine, before carrying his girlfriend's body downstairs. prosecutors say he shot and killed reeva steenkamp intentionally after the fight. the story is said he mistook steenkamp for a burglar. >> throughout this week's five days of testimony, we've heard from mostly neighbors living close to oscar pistorius' home. describing in a lot of detail

sometimes, what they thought they heard that tragic valentine's day morning. a lot of them were put under quite pressurized cross-examination and what is at stake through this is a sequence of events. is it the state's version or the defense's version and the defense very much clearly trying to break down the state's timeline of what happened. according to many of these eyewitnesses, the neighbors who heard what they thought were gun shots on that morning, there was a real sense of them painting a picture of screams, of gun shots, of something terrible happening, but according to the defense, over and over again, they kept on trying to paint their own picture of perhaps gun shots going off first, then screams, shouts for help, then a second set of sounds while perhaps sounding like gun shots were just in fact cricket backs being hit against a door as

oscar pistorius realized his girlfriend was mistakenly inside and those screams, also. a lot of debate throughout the week on what those screams sounded like. what those cries for help sounded like and over and over again, neighbors said listen, we thought it was a woman. we could hear. she was, it was a blood curdling scream that she was this trouble. but the defense kept on coming back, saying, have you heard oscar pistorius shout and scream when he's hysterical and they were aliluding to oscar pistoris sounds like a woman, a girl, that has this very high pitched scream. it's all about who heard what and when and i think that will continue over the next week. what is also going to be crucial in the coming week, perhaps longer, is that we're going to start hearing for more expert witnesses about forensics, ballistics, the police coming forward and saying what they saw

on what was technically a crime scene, so the scene has been set by some of those first responders, but in terms of the actual physical evidence, we still to hear about that. >> let's bring in our legal guys. richard herman right here with me in studio. okay, avery, a civil rights attorney and law professor in cleveland. give you a high five, too. i know you were here last week. >> i warm up the seat and look who's sitting there. >> we've got if seat warmed up here. let's talk about this. she said the scene has been set really by way of the eye and earwitnesses, but the forensic evidence, that's what's going to help determine whether there was intent here or not. richard, when you heard her talking about the cricket bat used to damage the door potentially and then there are gun shots that have pierced the

door, what will forensics tell us about? what came first and the direction in which they came, whether he did indeed have prosthetics on or not. >> i don't know that the forensics are really going to be able to answer all those questions. >> really? why not? >> i just don't think science is strong enough to give you those precise answers. >> is it important? >> what's important to establish is was this a premeditated, intentional killing. when she locked herself in the bathroom and they're going to contend she did that to protect herself from him, then four shots going through the bathroom and he kills her. that's the position of the prosecution, but the defense here is painting a picture of a different story like defense attorneys -- >> paranoid. that's why he had the gun -- >> crime in south africa is

enormous. his house has been broken into before. he's laying in bed with no legs. can't protect himself. 45 people die every day in south africa. the violence is inconceivable to us. he had a licensed handgun and he thought he was -- >> yeah, more than that. >> doesn't he check to see if she's there? >> much more to it than this. >> i do. samantha taylor, oscar pistorius' former girlfriend, testified. barry rus is sort of the johnny cochran of defense lawyers there, talked about oscar having the voice of a girl, a woman. like a mouse or something. what she testified to about was that he has a male scream. whatever the heck that is, but more importantly, what taylor testified to and i think it's been a powerful part of the first week, is that tra toria is

fraught with crime. there have been break ins there. he's had to pull a gun to chase intruders in the past and that's a very powerful part of the defense. what the defense lawyer has been doing is carefully advancing that argument that was understandable what happened that night, that valentine's night and that's where they're going. i think that the forensics coming up will be important to show the possibility of what the defense is trying to show here. remember, the burden is on the prosecution and there's no jury. it's judge, assess sors and that's it. no jury. >> the prosecution will also try to establish that a light was on and if the light was on, that sends a very different message of visibly being able to see what was happening in that versus if the light was off and he was disoriented and afraid there was an intruder.

>> that issue's not going to swing a day here. the question is intentional murder or culpable homicide. if it's culpable homicide, it's 15 years or perhaps no time. that's going to be the verdict in this case. >> that's right. >> our legal guys are sticking around. there's more to talk about, including a case including another big time athlete in the u.s. aaron hernandez could be facing more trouble for something he allegedly did in jail and a guy blew tons of money as a casino, so, guess who he's suing? the casino. we're going to explain why, next. ere's this kid. coach calls her a team player. she's kind of special. she makes the whole team better. he's the kind of player that puts the puck, horsehide, bullet. right where it needs to be. coach calls it logistics. he's a great passer. dependable. a winning team has to have one. somebody you can count on. somebody like my dad.

this is my dad. somebody like my mom. my grandfather. i'm very pround of him. her. them.

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high profile, you know, inmate? that he would now be facing charges? >> if they brought charges for everyone who threw a punch at someone in prison, the court would have to add a million more courthouses. it's not going to happen. he's a high profile guy. you said it earlier. looks like they're trying to taint the jury pool. they hate him and are trying to get him under control. that was the prison's fault to put them together. ultimately, i don't think they'll press charges. >> so, avery, you see this as potentially trying to taint the jury pool by possibly imposing a charge? >> actually, i do see prisoners charge ed commonly. this guy is nothing but trouble. obviously, law enforcement doesn't like him, but impacting on the jury pool, i just don't buy it. >> all right. we'll see if the, and potentially, this really could go away. there may not be an assault charge at all. this may really be talk. >> depends on the injuries.

if they're minor, they're never going bring charges here. >> okay. another legal case. a man who lost tons of money in las vegas is suing the casino, saying that they let him get too drunk and that's why he lost all that money. >> they served me all the drinks. they should have cut me off. >> it was a wild weekend gambling in sin city. what happened to retired real estate investor, mark johnson, didn't stay in vegas. he lost $500,000 gambling and he says it wasn't his fault. >> just picture a drunk walking down the street and he's drunk and somebody goes up and just pickpockets him and takes his wallet out. >> feel like they were stealing from you. >> absolutely. >> they is the downtown grand casino. on super bowl weekend, he claims in a civil lawsuit that the casino took advantage of him.

he claims he was so intoxicated, he was dropping chips on the floor, confusing colors and slurring speech and unable to read his cards. he said he had a 44-hour blackout in memory. how much does he claim he drank? 20 alcoholic beverages in 17 hours. that's on top of the approximately ten drinks he consumed before he stepped into the casino. how is that the casino's fault? he said the downtown grand continued to serve him drinks, violating a state law. how do you view that weekend now? >> i view that weekend that you know, my responsibility is look, i had some drinks at the airport. i had a drink on the plane. you know, at some point, that's my responsibility. okay, but the unfortunate part about it for them is that they have a more, bigger

responsibility than i do. >> the state gaming commission tells cnn it is investigating his case and if the casino is in violation of state laws, it could be subject to fines or revocation of its gambling license. the casino had no comment, saying it's in the middle of a lawsuit with johnston. as far as johnston, we chatted next to his $250,000 mercedes. he says the lawsuit is not about the money. come on, this is vegas. is this a sore looser? >> i am not. i've lost a half a million. 800,000. i've lost a lot of money. i've won a lot of money. this has nothing to do with that. obviously, i can afford what i lost. this is about you almost killing me. >> okay. let's talk more about this with our legal guys. avery and richard, back. so, avery, you're chuckling. he was essentially pickpocketed.

so -- >> oh, yeah. >> does his suit stand a chance? >> oh, my goodness. first of all, where did he get that hat? you think they gave that to him as a consolation prize? there are things called dra max that made bars and casinos liable. in a case like this, he's trying to use that same theory, making the casino liable for his losses. i think it's a sanctuariable lawsuit. it's a foolish lawsuit. i mean, the underlying reasoning is that i don't, i'm not personally responsible for my being drunk. and frankly, that's the kind of case that is going nowhere and it's from richard's hometown in vegas. >> i know. it's right in your -- your home away from home, backyard, richard. he did say there was a personal responsibility he has that maybe he shouldn't take another drink, even though it's offered to him, but then he also kind of

painteded the picture, that as he got more and more drunk and kind of impaired, he lost the ability to say no to another drink and they just kept pouring it. >> as dana carvey used to say, church lad di, isn't that special? listen, he went to sin city for super bowl weekend. had a create line of 250,000. bumped it another 250. he came there to rock and roll and that's what he did. >> that's exactly right. >> but there is a nevada statute that protects people who are overtly drunk and out of control in a casino from gambling and the casino has an obligation not to continue it. now, there was one eyewitness who was going to come forward and say he was dropping his chipses, couldn't read the cards and if that testimony is credible, he has a shot. ultimately, i think there will be a confidential settlement, resolution, and both parties

will go on their way. >> because avery, it seems like it might be tantamount to when you go to a bar and if the bartender continues to -- >> driving is illegal. >> but you said there is a statute that would protect him. he really might have a case. >> i'm not buying it. damax is to protect society. how is society being protected by making the casino liable? i just don't buy the theory. the argument. >> it's the law. >> the guy -- gl no, it's not the law. >> and the -- the burden on him to prove it. and other than what he's claiming, one witness -- >> it looks like he's going to roll the dice on this one. one more time. all right. all right. avery, richard, thanks so much. always good to see you. now, we just have to get the two of you here in atlanta. that would be so nice. >> it's wonderful to be here on

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get ready to spring forward. that means you're going to lose an hour. daylight savings time kicks in at 2:00 a.m., so don't forget to set your clocks one hour ahead before you go to bed. it's true. we lose an hour of sleep, but think about all that extra daylight you'll be getting on the other side. time for the science behein, where we look at the why behind the what. today, behind the time and the push for a perfect clock. let's go to cnn's barbara starr.

>> okay, so, it's daylight savings time. but what about your wristwatch? what about your cell phone? what about what these devices say? chicago asks the age old question and the pentagon is looking for the answer. this high-tech lab of lasers and mirrors measures the movement of atoms. 429 trillion atomic vibrations add up to just one second. >> that vibration is sort of the smallest unit of time that we can actually measure. >> their goal is to make the most precise clock in the world. currently, the source for precision time is gps satellites, which contain atomic clock used to synchronize clocks on the ground, but the pentagon worries the satellites could be jammed, so they want a more accurate alternative. your wristwatch loses a second every 30 days. clocks on gps satellites lose a

second every 30,000 years. this program is aimed at building a clock that wouldn't lose a second for a billion years. >> i don't care what you say, mine says they should have gone three minutes ago, so send them. >> synchronizing time has always been vital for soldiers, but now, it's more important than ever. >> you've got all of these high speed aircraft, precision guided ammunitio ammunitions, cameras and sensors and radars that are all operating simultaneously. you have to view that much more precisely. >> so, if gps goes down, troops will face new dangers. >> if you were to lose a couple of billiononths of a second, your positioning starts to get off by a meter. a few more, now you're off by several meters. >> and your life won't be so smooth either. gps time is in everything from power grids to your cell phone to the atm you use to get cash. without precision time, that atm

would eventually stop. if we can tell time more precisely, you still may be late for work, but now, you'll know exactly how late you are. keeping precision time for a billion years, well, it just means that wristwatch and cell phone have to last. >> all right, thanks so much. all right, don't forget, daylight saving time starts tomorrow morning, so set your clock back tonight before you go to bed. we have much more straight ahead and it all begins right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com here are the top stories we're following. an agonizing wait for hundreds of families whose loved ones were on a missing jet liner. we have the latest information on the ongoing search for the plane and the possibility that two